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BBSS: 2023 Draft Running Back Stats

Tyjae Spears - Football - Tulane University Athletics

With half of our running back room set to leave during free agency, the Jaguars could end up looking for value at the position in the upcoming draft.


So I decided to look at the last 3 years of college production of each draft eligible back using the stats at CFBStats.com and the consensus big board over at NFLMockDraftDatabase,com. The stats we will be looking at are Redzone success rate (the percentage of 1st down or TD plays in the RZ), yards per carry on all plays, and how the backs fared in short yardage scenarios on 3rd down (the percentage of 1st down or TD plays).

Without further ado:

Name RZ Success Rate 3yr YPC 3 yr 3rd 1-3 success rate Avg Big Board Rank
Bijan Robinson 40.74 6.33 69.23 13
Jahmyr Gibbs 34.04 5.57 43.75 31
Zach Charbonnet 39.29 6.28 80.65 62
Devon Achane 40.58 6.44 81.82 73
Zach Evans 52.00 6.89 100.00 79
Tank Bigsby 44.58 5.38 85.29 94
Kenny McIntosh 41.54 5.53 60.87 99
Chase Brown 30.12 5.30 78.95 100
Roschon Johnson 43.08 5.73 93.75 106
Deuce Vaughn 36.89 5.54 59.46 113
Sean Tucker 39.77 5.40 85.29 121
Kendre Miller 41.27 6.68 84.00 128
DeWayne McBride 51.65 7.28 88.64 136
Tyjae Spears 45.45 6.88 72.41 146
Eric Gray 44.93 5.69 67.65 147
Mohamed Ibrahim 46.38 5.27 81.48 168
Israel Abanikanda 59.15 5.58 82.76 177
Chris Rodriguez Jr. 42.55 5.91 76.47 179
Hunter Luepke #DIV/0! #DIV/0! #DIV/0! 192
Camerun Peoples 42.17 6.08 62.50 202
Evan Hull 37.29 4.82 70.73 211
Keaton Mitchell 31.25 6.54 57.89 238
Lew Nichols III 46.99 4.99 53.70 261
Trelon Smith 43.75 4.88 52.63 279
Travis Dye 53.01 6.19 95.65 289
Tiyon Evans 57.69 6.40 60.00 295
Tavion Thomas 56.79 5.14 72.50 301
Khalan Laborn 45.00 4.96 79.31 351
Noah Cain 44.44 4.17 76.92 363
Shaun Shivers 33.33 4.36 68.75 385
Jarek Broussard 37.04 5.14 68.18 408
SaRodorick Thompson 50.75 5.05 79.31 414
Emari Demercado 27.45 5.04 52.94 427
Xazavian Valladay 43.53 5.39 70.59 474

If college production is any indicator, players such as DeWayne McBride and Travis Dye could be just the values the Jaguars could be looking for in the later rounds.

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